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mm? /a/ ATTORNEYS Patented Nov. 17, 1925.

UNITED STATES P .CLINTON GITCHEL, 0F KEARNEY, NEBRASKA.

GAME.

kApplication med June 2, 1925. semi no. 34,428.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, CLINTON GrroHnL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Kearney, in the county of Buifalo and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Games, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to animprovement in games and aims to provide a game which is extremely simple in construction and easy and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture and yet provides a novel and highly entertaining form of amusement.

The game constituting the present invention consists of a playing board and a playing piece rollable on the boa-rd and controllable only by shifting of the board, the game contemplating the moving or positioning of the playing piece in certain relations to features of the playing board and the playing piece being constructed and organized to partake of startling and eccentric movements, thrilling to the player as Well as to the observers of the game.

Other objects and advantages reside in certain novel features of the construction, arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a partV of this specification, and in which:

Figure l is a plan view of one embodiment of the invention,

Figure 2 is a view in section on line 2*-2 of Fig. 1,

Figure 3 is a. detail sectional view of the playing piece, and

Figure 4 is aview in transverse section on line 4 4 of Figure 3.

Referring to the drawings the numeral 1 designates a playing board which may be constructed of card board or any suitable material and which may be reinforced in any suitable way as by means of reinforcing strips 2 of wood suitably aliixed to the underside of the board. The board presents a flat and smooth playing face 3 having a recess or socket 4 in the center thereof.

A playing piece is designated generally at 5 and comprises a drum made up of a cylindrical hub 6 having a circular end plate 7 xed thereto by fastening devices 8 and a loose or pivotal circular plate 9 attached to the hub at its'center by a pivot pin 10. The drum is eccentrically weighted, by means of a weight 1 1 fastened as at 12 to the fixed plate 7 adJacent the periphery of the plate.

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In playing t-he game theboard 1 isheld l in the hands with the playing piece 5 thereon and an effort is made to control the movement or position of the playing piece solely by shift-ing the board 1. The piece 5 may roll o-n its plate 7 and 9 or it may move on its weighted plate 7 alone and it partakes of startling and eccentric movements on the board. The vgame playe'd may consist in an endeavor to deposit the plate 7 of the playing piece in the recess 4 or it may consist in an endeavor to constrain the playing piece to a rolling movement adjacent to and aroundthe recess 4 of the playing board. In eitherl event they playing piece is controlled solely by shifting of the playing board. When thus played the game is amusing and thrilling not only to the player but also to the observers. The plates constitute the supporting elements of the playing plece.

I claim:

1. Av game comprising a playing board having a fiat playing face provided witha central recess, and a playing piece comprising a drum like structure having a cylindrical hub, a circular end plate fixed to one end of said hub, a similar end plate pivoted to the other end of the hub, and a weight eccentrically fastened to said fixed end plate, said playing piece being shiftably mounted on said board and being controllable by shifting of the board. Y

2. A game comprising a game board having a playing face, said game board being adapted to be held in the hands and lto be manually shifted, and a playing piece' having a pair ofk supporting elements rollable over the playing face of the board under the sole control of the board, one of said supporting elements being fixed to the playing piece and the other being pivoted thereto.

3. A game comprising a game board having a playing face, said game board having plain unobstructed margins to which the playing face extends,`said game board being adapted to be held in the hands and to be manually shifted, and a playing piece having a pair of supporting elements rollable over the playing face of the board under the sole control of the board said playing face having features in respect of which the playing piece is to be caused to occupy certain predetermined relations by manually shifting the board to Successfully play the game.

4. .A game comprising a game board and a playing piece oooperable With the board and having supporting elements rollalole thereover sai-cl playing piece being eocencr'-V cally Weighted.

5. A game comprising a game board and a playing piece ooopelable with the `board.

and having fixed and loose Supporting ele- 10 ments rollable thereover said playing piece being eccentrcally Weighted.

G. A game comprising a game board and a playing piece Cooperable with the board and havlng rollable thereover.

CLINTON GITCHEL.

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